Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly 4,000,000 houses that were built before 1880, 50% have no bathrooms, and at least 500,000 are officially designated as slums. Britain in the next 20 years will have to build a minimum of 300,000 houses a year. The shortage is compounded by a steady influx of office buildings into downtown areas and an exodus of city dwellers to the suburbs, where land grows ever more scarce and costly. Outside London, the government may even be compelled to build new towns in the Green Belts, as Britons call the jealously preserved rural areas around their cities...
Britain needed urgently to expand its markets and broaden its shaky financial base. Once inside Europe, British industry was confident that it could substantially boost exports to the Six. It also anticipated a heavy influx of investment capital from U.S. and other foreign companies eager to have a British toehold in the Common Market. If Britain were finally excluded from Europe, investment would continue to dwindle and Britain might be forced as a result to make drastic cuts in its living standards. Meanwhile, it may either retreat behind high tariff walls or else return to its classic ideal of free...
Winston Churchill celebrates his 89th birthday; greetings pour in from all over the civilized world and Ireland. The principality of Gambezi breaks off from the Gabon Republic and is proclaimed the world's newest and smallest state. The influx of diplomats trebels its population...
...committee in charge of freshman housing at first feared that there would not be enough rooms to absorb this influx. The architect for Weld had originally submitted a report which set the renovated hall's capacity at only about 100 spaces...
...back East, he stopped off in Omaha to pay tribute to Fred Seaton, Secretary of the Interior in his Cabinet and now candidate for Governor of Nebraska in an increasingly close race with Democratic Incumbent Frank Morrison. What Kennedy needs in Congress, said Ike. is "a darned good influx of Republicans." What Nebraska needs, he added, is Fred Seaton as Governor-"the kind of Governor who will repel this assault on the rights of state and local government...